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Agony of Choice - On Word Formation in a Translation Dictionary

Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2014

Abstract

The contribution of word formation to vocabulary acquisition is a well known fact. This paper discusses the design of special word formation parts of dictionary entries listing morphologically related lexemes of the lemma word, one of the strategies for dealing with word formation in dictionaries.

An attempt is made here to capture the factors to be considered when deciding which lexemes and in which order are to be included in these special word formation parts of dictionary entries.